[swift-evolution] Disallowing unreachable code

[Alex Blewitt]

On 29 Mar 2017, at 11:38, Jonathan Hull via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> On Mar 27, 2017, at 11:27 AM, John McCall via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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>> In fact, we should probably double-down on this design and add an "unimplemented" expression that always triggers warnings and just traps if you try to evaluate it. That expression would be a logical thing to use in e.g. code snippets automatically inserted by an IDE.
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> Yes, please.


You can do this already:

func unimplemented<T>(_ file:String = #file,_ line:Int = #line) -> T {
  fatalError("Not implemented \(file):\(line)")
}

let f: String = unimplemented()


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